Woman was cheated after transferring $90,000 to a Nigerian “relative” in Tashkent

A woman living in Tashkent lost $90,000 after believing the lies of international fraudsters about transferring a $3 billion inheritance from the owner of a large company to her. This was reported by the Cyber Security Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to an employee of the center, the incident happened two months ago. Nigerian fraudsters approached the woman through social media, claiming that the owner of a large company had died and that she might be a distant relative of the billionaire. They asked her to send a blood test. If the analysis confirmed signs of kinship, the inheritance of three billion dollars left by the company's head would go to her.

Believing the fraudsters' lies, the woman sent them a blood test and also transferred $1,000 to the fraudsters to check the analysis. After a while, she received a message that she was indeed a relative of the billionaire, and her blood matched among thousands of people. The fraudsters then told her that to transfer the large amount of money, she should open a bank account with $20,000 in it.

Thus, the defrauding of the woman began: she transferred $90,000 to them in several stages, believing the fraudsters' preparation of documents, legal services, and various other excuses. The woman did not have such an amount of money, so she also sold her house.

It is reported that such crimes are committed by an organized criminal group. It is very difficult to solve them. According to global experience, 60-70 percent of crimes of this type remain unsolved.